Covid, inflation, stagnation of consumption… These are just additional problems for a sector that is currently facing the rise in the minimum wage, the rise in Social Security contributions, the fall in consumption… “And a suffocating regulatory framework: A business opening its doors in 2021 would be affected by more than 3,000 regulations of all kinds, from European to municipal,” explains Francisco Vidal, director of economics at Cepyme, the employers’ … Continue reading 215 shops close every day in Spain